{"id":2244,"date":"2011-09-14T08:47:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T12:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2011-09-14T08:50:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T12:50:35","slug":"by-george-top-10-canadian-icons-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2244","title":{"rendered":"By George Top-10 Canadian Icons"},"content":{"rendered":"

AskMen.com<\/em> listed the top 10 Canadian icons \u201cthat have been branded as our global symbols and that define our Canadian identity.\u201d\u00a0 In ascending order, they picked: maple syrup, Canada goose,\u00a0beaver, Tim Horton\u2019s, the loon, totem poles, Mounties, the CBC, the maple leaf and their number #1 icon is hockey.<\/p>\n

In our\u00a0own circles, we\u00a0have been asking around and have prepared this list:<\/p>\n

The By George Top 10 Canadian Icons<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

10.\u00a0 Newfie jokes, eh! Canadian humour at its best\u2026<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 The beauty of our country\u2019s nature\u00a0captured in a Group of Seven\u00a0shoreline painting or with a lone canoeist gliding through the early-morning mist of a fresh water lake<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0 A mounted RCMP with Parliament Hill\u2019s Peace Tower serving as his backdrop<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 A Bryan Adams ballad or Margaret Atwood novel \u2013 or our country\u2019s next generation of\u00a0talent \u2013 crooner Justin Bieber and renowned Yann Martel<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 Paul Henderson\u2019s \u201972 Team Canada sweater \u2013 the hopes and dream of a nation immortalized with this $1 million icon<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 The Canada Space Arm reaching out with the globe in the background \u2013 a poignant symbol of our remarkable contribution to science and to tomorrow\u2019s dreams<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 A Tim Horton\u2019s double-double and a maple-iced donut (hey, believe it or not\u00a0in the Maritimes, they\u2019re now ordering 4 x 4s \u2013 a coffee with four creams and four sugars!)<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 HNIC\u2019s Coache\u2019s Corner highlighting Bobby Orr soaring through the goal crease, Wayne Gretzky scoring from behind the net, and\/or Sydney Crosby skating backward and raising his arms in victory.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Terry Fox and his drive and will to make a difference \u2013 our memories of Terry\u2019s smile, his curly hair, the lean of his body as he makes his way through the Canadian Shield landscape.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 The red maple leaf \u2013 Through the past forty years, the red leaf in the middle of our nation\u2019s flag has become a definitive icon for Canucks and for the world. From a fluttering flag to the patch on a serviceman\u2019s shoulder, the red maple leaf represents all that is good in our country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(ed. \u2013 This is a repost, picked as one of our favourite three\u00a0posts of 2010, taken from the earlier posts on the <\/em>By George Journal. \u00a0Aside from being an interesting and fun assignment, this particular article had tremendous feedback from our readership. The original post is here: <\/em>https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1132<\/a> \u00a0)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AskMen.com listed the top 10 Canadian icons \u201cthat have been branded as our global symbols and that define our Canadian identity.\u201d\u00a0 In ascending order, they picked: maple syrup, Canada goose,\u00a0beaver, Tim Horton\u2019s, the loon, totem poles, Mounties, the CBC, the maple leaf and their number #1 icon is hockey. In our\u00a0own circles, we\u00a0have been asking…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2246,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions\/2246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}